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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:52:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:24:42 +0100, Malcolm McLean wrote:

> You embed the XML in the program as a string, and then mount an internal
> filesystem over it. So you can use stdio functions on internal data.

Interestingly, Microsoft added a similar feature to PowerShell to let you 
browse the Windows Registry as though it were a filesystem.

Of course, nobody is supposed to point out that representing system 
configuration as a bunch of (editable, text) files in a dedicated 
directory is exactly how *nix systems have been doing things since the 
early days...